1. يا أَميراً ما رَأَيْنَا

    مثْلَهُ فَضْلاً أَميرَا

    O prince, we have never seen

    a prince like you in excellence.

  2. يا أَبا الْعَبَّاس يا شَمْ

    ساً ويا بَدْراً مُنيرَا

    O Abu al-Abbas, O sun,

    and O radiant full moon!

  3. يَا كَبِيرَ الْعَقْلِ والْ

    آدابِ مُذْ كَانَ صَغِيرَا

    O you, great in intellect and

    learning since you were small!

  4. والذي نكذب إن

    قسنا به يوماً نطير

    And you, about whom we would lie if

    we ever compared a peer with you [conjectural reading].

  5. قد أَتَى عيْدَكَ شِعْرٌ

    منْكَ خَلاَّهُ حَسِيَرا

    A poem has come to your festival,

    from you, leaving it exhausted,

  6. بَعْدَ سَبْقِ مِنْ خَطَارِ ال

    شِّعْرِ مَنْ كَانَ خَطِيرَا

    after surpassing, among the champions of

    poetry, whoever was eminent.

  7. حَسَنُ اللَّفْظُ يَحاكِي

    رَصْفُهُ الدُّرَّ النَّثِيرَا

    Lovely in wording, it resembles

    scattered pearls in its arrangement.

  8. مَلأَ الجِسْمَ شِفَاءً

    وحَشَا الْقَلْبَ سُرُوراً

    It filled the body with healing

    and filled the heart with joy.

  9. كَانَ مِنْ عَارِضِ شَكْ

    وايَ وَمِنْ دَهْرِي مَجيرَا

    It was, from the onset of my complaint

    and from my fate, a refuge.

  10. لَيْسَ ما يَذْخَرُهُ عِنْ

    دِي مِنَ الشُّكْرِ يَسيرَا

    What it stores within me is no

    small measure of gratitude.

  11. سَوْفَ أُهْدِي مِنْهُ رَوْضاً

    جَاوَرَتْ مِنْكَ غَدِيرَا

    I shall offer from it a garden

    that borders a pool from you.

  12. كَمْ عَسِيرٍ عَادَلِي مِنْ

    حُسْنِ نَعْمَاكَ يَسِيرَا

    How many a hardship became for me, through

    your gracious favor, an easy thing!

  13. قَدْ يُرَى الْعَبْدُ وإنْ

    قَلَّ بِمَوْلاَهُ كَثِيرَا

    A servant may be regarded, though

    of little account, as great through his master.